UPDATE: Seriously, people—if anybody comes across an attempt at justifying the panty-sniffing, I’d like to see it. As far as I’m aware, nobody’s even trying. The conventional wisdom on the left is that Sarah Palin has absolutely no chance of being elected president and is far more likely to serve as a spoiler for someone like Rigel. In other words, the more popular Palin is, the more likely Obama is to be reelected. Which explains why it’s so crucially important for “progressives” to scrutinize every scrap of email from Alaska in order to discredit her even further…uh, no, wait. Oops.

Which is basically all revealing how entirely sad the news companies are these days.

On the other hand, it's quite helpful for those of us who like Palin. Like with Bush, Palin shows that she's really the same in private as she is in public. What you see is what you get.

With this obsession over Palin it also means that there's almost no likelihood at all she's going to have some kind of surprising scandal or background issue. And because she already knows the ways she is going to be attacked, she knows how to forge good defense strategies. Which makes her a possibly very strong candidate.

One really strong debate and her numbers could easily turn around, as it is quite clear if someone is stupid and/or ignorant of global/national affairs.

I'm not at all willing to say she's the best candidate. Perry from Texas seems like if he jumps in, he could take the lead pretty quick. But, I would say that the nomination is hers to lose. If she steps up her game, masters the issues, has good responses (and her driving the national debate from Facebook shows she can), then she could leave the others in the dust.

I never really imagined we'd see the day in which Warner Brothers cartoons became known as prescient political commentary, but that day has come. No matter what schemes are devised to destroy her - scandals, frivolous ethics charges, blood libel, the email release, Acme anvils being dropped from canyon tops, fake tunnels being painted on mountainsides, she just Meep-Meeps at them and runs on past as their schemes backfire and expose the schemers for the fools they are. It's magnificent.

"Crivella West Incorporated, an advanced analytics and investigational research company, announced that James Pfeifer, a 7th grade student at Jefferson Middle School in Mount Lebanon, received the first box of Sarah Palin emails released today by the State of Alaska in Juneau, Alaska. James, brother of Joseph and Lauren, is the son of Debra Pfeifer and Greg Pfeifer.

•Detroit News - Palin emails rarely mention Michigan, search shows: "Michigan, Detroit or its political figures rarely were the topic of discussion for former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, a search of the emails sent before she was tapped by Sen. John McCain to be his running mate reveals."

The release here of Ms. Palin’s e-mails — which are sprinkled with mentions of God and Palinisms like “flippin” as a G-rated exclamation — were an extraordinary event in their own right, providing the sort of intimate look into a governor’s day-to-day interactions that is rarely available to the public. But the intense media coverage of the e-mails was also criticized by Ms. Palin’s supporters as overzealous.

How meta. Its not the emails its the Palinite reaction to the review of the e-mails.

I think the issue here is too many media outlets feel compelled to write the word Palin. Its what words to write after that's so challenging.

In other words, the more popular Palin is, the more likely Obama is to be reelected. Which explains why it’s so crucially important for “progressives” to scrutinize every scrap of email from Alaska in order to discredit her even further…uh, no, wait. Oops.

Love it. Not Palin but the absurd reactions she generates in leftists.

It's just pathetic, risible even. I've watched as the Times have increasingly pointed themselves into an ideological corner, 1st the hope and promise of freedom, then gradually following that logic where it leads, ever decreasing circles of exclusion, certainty mixed with fear and dread, name-calling, lashing out, purity tests...

...and yet they don't see at all just how much they've contributed to Palin's success..their idiocy and ideological rigidity and childish behavior fuels the aggrieved sense that most Palin supporters have against that idiocy, regardless of her merit.

Just go to the White House blog, and watch Obama's green team, or dig through the archives and realize just who is running things and why, or dig around and see the disconnect between the lofty speeches and the policies and political reality and form your own opinion. I'm forming mine day by day, and humbly, I submit they seem like incompetents, economic illiterates, foreign policy idealists and ideologues, and simply will do much more harm than good.

Once again, not in my lifetime has any political figure that I know of been so scrutinized and demonized as this woman. It's an amazing and embarrassing thing to watch how leftards and even some conservatives wish ill of this woman and her family. Hey, how did Todd Palin's infidelity accusations turn out as reported by the enquirer, hmmm? I'm sure little miss sullivan has the smoking gun somewhere.